The origins of the CPGB ( PCC ) lie in the New Communist Party of Britain which split from the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) in 1977.

The CPGB ( PCC ) described this process as communist rapprochement.

The attempt failed as the ISG collapsed and Open Polemic briefly enrolled a few of its supporters in the CPGB ( PCC ), only for them to quit in a row over money.

The new faction called instead for the CPGB ( PCC ) to rejoin a Socialist Alliance reform current called the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform.

The Red Platform won their aim but the CPGB ( PCC ) majority continued to work within Respect.

The CPGB ( PCC ) also enjoys close links with Communist Students.

The CPGB ( PCC ) endorsed the Labour Party in the June 2009 European Parliament elections and criticised the No to EU – Yes to Democracy coalition as " left-wing nationalist.

Non-members such as former Soviet dissident Boris Kagarlitsky, Matzpen founder Moshé Machover and Professor Hillel Ticktin — editor of Critique and chairman of the Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements, University of Glasgow — have spoken at CPGB ( PCC ) events.

However, the CPGB ( PCC ) does not formally endorse any particular theoretical analysis of the USSR.

During the 1992 general election campaign, Ken Livingstone — later Mayor of London — claimed that the CPGB ( PCC ) were " MI5 agents ".

The CPGB was initially divided whether to embrace the organisation, the PCC initially sided with the pro-affiliation faction led by Ian Donovan.

Grigorii Zinoviev issued a denial on 27 October 1924, which was finally published in the December 1924 issue of The Communist Review, the monthly theoretical magazine of the CPGB, well after the MacDonald government had fallen.

Her report showed that the letter contained statements similar to those made by Zinoviev to other communist parties and at other times to the CPGB, but at the time ( Anglo-Soviet trade talks and a general election ) when Zinoviev was being more restrained towards the British.

Hobsbawm was later a leading light of the Eurocommunist faction in the CPGB that began to gather strength after 1968, when the CPGB criticised the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring and the French CP failed to support the May students in Paris.

The Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy.

The CPGB was formed by the merger of several smaller Marxist parties, including the British Socialist Party, the Communist Unity Group of the Socialist Labour Party and the South Wales Socialist Society.

In January 1921, the CPGB was refounded after the majorities of Sylvia Pankhurst's group the Communist Party ( British Section of the Third International ), and the Scottish Communist Labour Party agreed to unity.

The CPGB as the British section of the Communist International was committed to implementing the decisions of the higher body to which it was subordinate.

This proved to be a mixed blessing in the General Strike of 1926 immediately prior to which much of the central leadership of the CPGB was imprisoned.

The CPGB did succeed in creating a layer of militants very committed to the party and its policies, although this support was concentrated in particular trades, specifically in heavy engineering, textiles and mining, and in addition tended to be concentrated regionally too in the coalfields, certain industrial cities such as Glasgow and in Jewish East London.

This was opposed within the CPGB by Harry Pollitt and J. R. Campbell, the editor of the Daily Worker, and both were relieved of their duties in October 1939.

From 1939 until 1941 the CPGB was very active in supporting strikes and in denouncing the government for its pursuit of the war.

However, when in 1941 the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany, the CPGB reversed its stance immediately and came out in support of the war on the grounds that it had now become a war between fascism and the Soviet Union.

The patriotic stance of the CPGB was such that in 1943 at a by-election in Cardiff they actively campaigned for the Conservative Party candidate against Fenner Brockway, the Independent Labour Party candidate.

In the 1950s the CPGB ’ s Reuben Falber received around £ 100 000 a year from the CPSU, and into the seventies was still being paid around £ 15 000 " for pensions ", according to historian Geoff Andrews, who adds " recipients included Rajani Palme Dutt ".

From the war years to 1956 the CPGB was at the height of its influence in the labour movement with many union officials who were members.

The death of Stalin in 1953, and the uprising in East Germany the same year had little direct influence on the CPGB, but they were harbingers of what was to come.

The CPGB was to experience its greatest ever loss of membership as a result of the Warsaw Pact's crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

They retained a handful of seats in local councils scattered around Britain, but the CPGB's only representative in Parliament was in the House of Lords, gained when Wogan Philipps, the son of a ship-owner and a long standing member of the CPGB, inherited the title of Lord Milford when his father died in 1963.

Perhaps the best known of the tiny minority of CPGB members opposed the Moscow line was Michael McCreery, who formed the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity.

The last strong electoral performance of the CPGB was in the February 1974 General Election in Dunbartonshire Central, where candidate Jimmy Reid won almost 6, 000 votes.

The original YCL organisation was founded in 1921 as the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) by the merger of the Young Workers ' League and the International Communist Schools Movement.

While organisationally independent, the group was always closely linked to the CPGB and its activities and fortunes broadly followed those of its parent organisation.

Chamberlain was to become head of the NCP's youth section but was shortly later to attempt to rejoin the CPGB.

Peter Fryer, correspondent for the CPGB newspaper The Daily Worker, reported accurately on the violent suppression of the uprising, but his dispatches were heavily censored ;

After the founding of the Communist Party of Britain in 1988 ( and the dissolution of the CPGB ), the YCL was re-established in 1991, based on the CPB Youth Section.

A section of the organization, including key figures such as shop steward movement activist Jack Murphy formed an organised faction called the Communist Unity Group, which ultimately left the SLP to join the CPGB at its founding convention in the summer of 1920.

It was established in 1991 when the CPGB decided to reform itself into a left-leaning political multi-issue grassroots campaign group / think-tank based on the party's Manifesto for New Times.

Successive annual general meetings of the People's Press Printing Society have agreed that the policy of the paper is founded on Britain's Road to Socialism, the programme of the Communist Party of Britain ; in its earlier forms before 1985, the programme of the CPGB.

He worked as an independent scholar ; from 1946 onwards he was the Chair of the Historians Group of the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ).

Gallacher lost his West Fife seat to Labour at the 1950 General Election coming third behind the National Liberal candidate, but remained in politics and served as President of the CPGB from 1956 to 1963.

Some 280 former members of the CPGB in Scotland joined the new party including Mick McGahey, who had been a leading member of the National Union of Mineworkers in the 1970s and 1980s.